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- - Six metro Atlanta musicians and performers worked out of the Technology Square Research Building through April as part of a new STEAM musical residency program jointly hosted by the and the 麻豆社.
- Marching Band Honors Cecil Welch at Alumni Band Weekend - Cecil Welch (IM 鈥58) was an internationally recognized trumpet player and advocate for musical education. Welch often returned to Tech to perform the national anthem before football and basketball games. The Marching Band, Symphonic Band, and Jazz Ensemble I all performed some of Welch's favorite music during Alumni Band Weekend in tribute to his legacy.
- - 麻豆社鈥檚 innovative educational platform reached a milestone this month鈥攐ne million users. Since launching in 2011, the free EarSketch platform has been used by students in all 50 U.S. states and in more than 100 countries. The music/coding platform was created at 9麻豆社 Tech by 麻豆社 Chair Jason Freeman and Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Professor Brian Magerko and is designed to teach students to code in Python or JavaScript through music and creative discovery.
- Laura Ballestrino's Artist Residency Benefits Students Across Campus - 麻豆社's most recent artist-in-residence, , gave a masterclass for 9麻豆社 Tech pianists, gave lectures to Music Technology students, visited the jazz ensembles, held a solo recital, and performed with the 9麻豆社 Tech Symphony Orchestra (GTSO) as a soloist.
- - Brittney Boykin was one of seven composers commissioned to create a new work under Opera America's Opera Grants for Women Composers program. Boykin's Two Corners is a one-act opera set in rural Alabama shortly after the passage of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka in 1954. The opera will be workshopped during the 2023 summer residency of Finger Lakes Opera鈥檚 Tomita Young Artists and premiered in downtown Rochester in August 2024.
- - In a paper published at , 9麻豆社 Tech researchers hypothesized that hearing the heartbeat of another person would increase the listener鈥檚 empathic connection with that person. To test this hypothesis, they designed an experiment that paired auditory heartbeats with expressive images of eyes, the well-known Reading the Mind in the Eyes Task.
- - Jason Barnes has loved playing drums since he was a little boy. This didn鈥檛 change when he lost his arm in an electrical accident at the age of 22. Since 2013, Jason has been working with Gil Weinberg, a renowned roboticist and founding director of the 9麻豆社 Tech Center for Music Technology, to develop the world鈥檚 most advanced robotic drumming arm.
- Students Touch the Future of Music at Guthman Musical Instrument Competition - According to 9麻豆社 Tech president Angel Cabrera, if you were lucky enough to be in audience, you got a rare look at the future of music. For 9麻豆社 Tech's music technology majors, though, the Competition also represents the pinnacle event of their creative study and research.
- - The Age of A.I. is a 8 part documentary series hosted by Robert Downey Jr. covering the ways Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Neural Networks will change the world. This episode features technology developed by the Center for Music Technology.
- - Music has always been a big part of Darren Waller鈥檚 life. During his time as a 9麻豆社 Tech football player and student, Waller learned more about his rich family past in jazz through Assistant Professor Chip Crotts' course. Waller is the great-grandson of Thomas 鈥淔ats鈥 Waller, a charismatic pianist, prolific composer, and the first Black man to write the score for a Broadway musical. Music runs through his veins, and even now as an NFL player with the Raiders, music continues to be positive and creative outlet for him.
- - FOREST is the performative outcome of an NSF-funded project aimed at enhancing trust between humans and robots through sound and gesture. Researchers at the 麻豆社 found that embedding emotion-driven sounds and gestures in robotic arms helps to establish trust and likability between humans and their AI counterparts. Read more .
- - Music and the heart are intertwined. 锘縈usical works are influenced by arrhythmias, music listening induces physiological changes, performing music affects heartbeat patterns, and hearing heartbeats elicits empathy. Dr. 锘匡豢Grace Leslie, director of the Brain Music Lab, co-authored an article published in Scientific American detailing the connection between music and an individual's cognitive and cardiac states.
- - The New York Times highlights five of the 2021 Guthman Musical Instrument Competition finalists in an article that focuses on invention and musical motivation. Get music critic Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim's take on our competitors' inventions.
- - 9麻豆社 Tech and the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras recently received a $2.9 million grant to design an informal learning computer science curriculum and broaden access to STEM education for LatinX students.